WASHINGTON,
November 5 (RIA Novosti) – A former administrator at a New York
non-profit that distributes reparation payments to survivors of the
Holocaust has been sentenced to eight years in prison for running a $57
million scam that recruited Russian immigrants to pose as victims of the
Nazis, the US Attorney’s Office said in a statement.(...)

Read As PDF - Published reports indicate that he was also ordered to forfeit $59,230 and pay restitution in the amount of $57.3 million.

Since 2010, a total of 31 individuals have been charged with participating in the scheme to defraud the Article 2 Fund and Hardship Fund programs, which Domnister directed, according to the JTA.
Twenty-eight defendants pleaded guilty and three—Domnister, Luba Kramrish, and Oksana Romalis—were convicted in May after trial. Kramrishwas sentenced on September 20 to 37 months in prison, and Romalis is scheduled to be sentenced on November 26.
The fraud was discovered in 2009 and dated back to 1993. It involved falsifying applications to the Hardship Fund, an account established by the German government to provide one-time payments of approximately $3,360 to those who fled the Nazis as they moved east through Germany,
and the Article 2 Fund, through which the German government gives pension payments of approximately $411 per month to needy Nazi victims who spent significant time in a concentration camp, in a Jewish ghetto in hiding or living under a false identity to avoid the Nazis, as reported by the JTA.
As reported by The Jewish Voice in May of 2013, Claims Conference chairman Julius Berman expressed his appreciation to the U.S. Attorney’sOffice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for their successful prosecutorial efforts. “Those who perpetrated this unthinkable fraud enriched themselves by abusing the historic effort to obtain a small measure of justice for Holocaust victims,” he said at the time.
In a May statement, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara emphasized,“We said we would not stop until we brought to justice those who committed these unthinkable crimes and today our objective was accomplished.”
According to the FBI and government prosecutors, the $57 million fraud scheme was masterminded by Russian-speaking Claims Conference employees and assisted by a network of runners and recruiters who submitted thousands of Holocaust restitution claims on behalf of people throughout North America who were not legally entitled to the funds.
“The web of conspirators—both former employees and many outsiders—used their knowledge of the organization’s work,” noted Berman, “in order to fabricate and approve false stories of suffering during the Holocaust for monetary gain.”
Greg Schneider, the Claims Conference’s executive vice president, said, “To have it all come to closure is extraordinarily important.
We’re obviously very happy that justice has been served, but focus on the needs of Holocaust survivors has always been our main priority.”
In the spring of 2012, 65-year-old Zlata Blavatnik was convicted of defrauding the Claims Conference out of $550,000. Blavatnik had pled guilty to the charge that she had “produced falsified documents for myself” and “helped others in the same office” to make fraudulent “reparation” payments.

According to the FBI, in exchange for kickbacks,
the crooked employees – who were responsible for processing and approving truly legitimate applications, purposely approved close to 5,000 fraudulent applications, resulting in disbursements to applicants who did not legally qualify for the programs. At the time of Blavatnik’s conviction,Bharara thanked the Claims Conference for “their outstanding, ongoing assistance in identifying the participants in this scheme.”
Some of the schemers recruited other individuals to provide identification documents, such as passports and birth certificates, which were then falsely altered and submitted to corrupt inside contactsat the Claims Conference, who proceeded to process those applications.
When the applicants received their compensation checks, they held on to aportion of the money and passed the remainder back up the chain.
The Article 2 Fund makes monthly payments of approximately $400 to survivors of Nazi persecution who earn less than $16,000 per year, and either lived in hiding or under a false identity for a minimum of 18 months; lived in a Jewish ghetto for 18 months; or were forcibly confined for six months in a concentration camp or a forced labor camp.

Der Spiegel: "In a recent interview with the Frankfurter Rundschau, Noach Flug, chairman of the Organisation of Holocaust Survivors in Israel, said that the roughly €60 billion ($88 billion) compensation that Germany has paid thus far "stand in no relation" to the crimes of World War II. He said that with the payments, "Germany has built a nice house. But now there are a few holes in the roof that need to be repaired, so that it doesn't collapse.""

Pinchas
Gutter, a Toronto Holocaust survivor, sits at the front of the
classroom answering students’ questions in an easy give-and-take
discussion.

An
unremarkable scene, except that Gutter isn’t really there. The students
are conversing with a life-size, three-dimensional hologram. The real
Gutter has pre-recorded answers to about 1,000 questions, and
sophisticated voice recognition software and camera work give the
compelling illusion that he is carrying on an interactive
conversation.

It’s a brilliant
solution, conceived in the labs of the University of Southern
California’s Shoah foundation, to the troubling question of how to
preserve and re-create conversations about the Holocaust in the
future.

“We want to achieve the
sense of intimacy and directness between the students and the survivors,
so they’ve had the questions that are pressing on them answered,”
explains Stephen Smith, executive director of the USC Shoah foundation.
“We want to try and meet those young people of the future where they
are.”

The bar that the USC
researchers set was high. The images had to look three-dimensional,
without the aid of special glasses or gimmicks. And the conversation had
to feel as natural and logical as possible, Smith told a conference on
Holocaust Survivor Testimony in a Digital Age, sponsored by March of the
Living Canada in Toronto last week.

The
project, called New Dimensions in Testimony, is still in its infancy,
but it is already startlingly realistic. Preliminary testing has been
projected on a television screen, and at first, viewers think Gutter is
speaking to them via Skype. But even when they realize the image isn’t
“live,” they still forget. Smith has seen a mother thank the hologram of
Pinchas profusely for sharing his story with her two daughters at a
Holocaust museum.

He’s
also seen a roomful of skeptical academics applaud the hologram of
Pinchas, forgetting that he isn’t present. “It’s not about the 3D
technology, it’s about the dialogue,” Smith said.

In
fact, based on initial testing, Gutter will return to the USC lab next
month to record more answers to questions that had not been predicted,
including a response to the people who thank him so emotionally.
Responses will also be taped in Hebrew and Polish.

Gutter, 83, who is the first person to test-drive the new technology says it has been a gruelling experience.

On
three occasions, he travelled to the Los Angeles foundation, where he
sat in a dome lit by 6,000 LED lights, surrounded by 52 cameras. The
lights were so blinding he had to wear protective glasses when he wasn’t
being filmed. He had to wear the same clothes and sit in the same
position to maintain the continuity of the project. “I spent five days
sitting in that sphere. I lost track of how many questions were asked,”
he said. “I had no idea of what the questions were because it had to be
spontaneous. It was both emotionally and physically draining.”

Drafting
the more than 900 questions was also a challenge. Researchers had to
start with the lowest level of knowledge about the Holocaust, and one
day, staff brought in their own children to ask questions, Gutter
said.

Answers had to be recorded
for questions that were off-topic and that were hypothetical. In
testing, the software has picked out the best answer for about 90 per
cent of the questions that have been asked.

Smith
chose his first “guinea pig” to try out the new technology carefully.
He needed someone who “was eloquent, who had stamina and who had a good
relationship and trust with me. Because it was a research environment
there were equipment breakdowns. We didn’t know how well it would go,”
he said.

The two men met many years
ago, when Smith was designing a Holocaust museum in Cape Town and
interviewed Gutter, who was then living in South Africa. Smith has since
made a documentary about Gutter’s first return trip to Poland and the
two men clearly have a close relationship.

“I
agreed to be involved with this because of my friendship with [Smith],”
Gutter told the conference. “I felt there was a value in what it was
trying to achieve.” The project will go live next year in the Illinois
Holocaust Museum, and eventually will be in other educational centres in
North America and Europe. “We don’t want to rush it. The Holocaust
survivors are there and doing their thing,” Smith said in an
interview.

The project hopes to
record 10 survivors, five women and five women, who will reflect the
diversity of the Holocaust experience. It’s an expensive undertaking,
costing about $2 million initially and then $500,000 for each additional
survivor who will be filmed.

But for Gutter the project “is worth every penny.”

“If
this helps advance the knowledge of the Shoah in the future and it
doesn’t just become an academic exercise, it is very meaningful.”

Violence in Iraq before the Farhud. Photo by Etniel Margalit Collection

When the pogrom against Iraq’s Jews known as the Farhud erupted on Shavuot eve in 1941, Hela Saref Kargola was 16 years old. She lived with her family in central Basra, a city in southern Iraq.

“We
were at home,” recalled Kargola, who died in 2012. “When we heard the
mob screaming outside, we went out onto the terrace. We saw many Arabs
crowding at Jewish homes, carrying dozens of household objects and
furniture in their arms. They emptied the Jews’ homes and took whatever
they could carry,” she recalled.

“Yesterday’s
neighbors became today’s enemies. Police officers supposed to keep
order took off their uniforms and joined in the killing,” she added. Her
descriptions are horrific. “Pregnant women were taken off buses, their
abdomens were cut open and the fetuses removed. Elderly people were
beaten to death in the streets. Entire homes were looted to their
foundations.”

According to statistics at Yad Vashem,
179 Jews were killed, more than 2,000 wounded, and 50,000 were victims
of theft during the Farhud (an ancient word meaning imposing brutal
terror on the subjects of a regime). “Terrible acts of cruelty were
carried out during the pogrom. Babies, elderly people and women were
murdered and their limbs hacked to pieces. Women were raped. Synagogues
were damaged and Torah scrolls desecrated,” according to a brief paper
in Hebrew about the Farhud at Yad Vashem’s website.

“Why?
Why? How did it happen that people who had been guests in Jewish homes a
day or two before, who had worked with them and admired them, suddenly
turned into monsters? How did they change in such an awful way?” Kargola
asked.

A
legal struggle that Farhud victims are waging against Israel provides a
possible explanation of the motives. Based on the professional opinion
of historians, the plaintiffs claim that Nazi Germany
was behind it. Accordingly, they are demanding that the government
recognize the victims of the Farhud as victims of the Nazis, granting
them compensation and benefits according to the Disabled Victims of Nazi
Persecution Law.

Their
claims, which were denied, are now being clarified by an appeals
committee. “If we do not convince them, we will appeal to the District
Court and even to the Supreme Court,” say attorneys David Yadid, Doron
Atzmon and Sivan Batsri, experts in the rights of Holocaust survivors and victims of Nazi persecution, who brought the lawsuit.

How much were the Nazis involved in Iraq?

A
look at the professional opinion written by the historians recruited by
the parties provides a fascinating glimpse into the historical debate
about Nazi Germany’s influence in Iraq and the suffering that the Nazis
caused to Jews living in Arab countries, far from occupied Europe.

The
historical material includes minutes of a German military discussion,
the Nazi foreign ministry's correspondance, British army intelligence
reports and the report of the investigative committee established in
Iraq after the pogrom. The Iraqi prime minister, Rashid Ali al-Gaylani;
the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini; Adolf Hitler
and his book Mein Kampf; the Nazi radio station that broadcast from
Berlin and had reception in Iraq; and the fascist youth movement that
mirrored Germany’s Hitler Youth all play major roles in the material.

The
plaintiffs claim that the riots against the Jews in Iraq were “a direct
result of incitement and deliberate, organized German-Nazi propaganda
whose purpose was to make the Jews hateful to the Arab inhabitants of
Iraq and motivate them to strike at the Jews.” Attorneys Yadid and
Batsri are convinced that “the Germans were directly linked to the
people who fueled, instigated and organized the riots, supported them
and directed them.” They add: “The broad scope of the riots... and other
historical sources prove that there was a directing hand behind the
riots — the hand of Nazi Germany.” They see Iraq as a satellite and a
vassal state of Nazi Germany.

But
on the other side of the barricade is the Holocaust Survivors Rights
Authority at the Finance Ministry, whose officials claim that Nazi
involvement in Iraq was marginal, meaning the case of Iraqi Jewry is not
like that of other Jews subject to Nazi rule. The Authority says that
the riots were caused by other factors, such as traditional hatred of
Jews, a fight against supporters of the British and support for the
Palestinian national struggle.

“Germany
did not go out of its way to infiltrate Iraqi territory and establish a
physical or ideological foothold there,” writes Dr. Yaacov Toby of the
University of Haifa in his professional opinion. “Berlin’s affairs were
directed toward the European continent, not elsewhere.” He added, “There
was no expectation, and certainly no order, from the German government
to the Iraqi government to carry out any government activity inside
Iraq, and certainly not one of violent incidents or killing of Jews.”

The
historical documents in archives in Israel and abroad were collected
for the plaintiffs by Professor Yitzchak Kerem, an expert on Spanish and
Oriental Jewry. In his professional opinion, he wrote, “The deciding
factor in the outbreak of the Farhud was Nazi incitement against Iraq’s
Jews, which was carried out by the Nazi regime through the
representatives and agents it appointed.”

He
draws a firm conclusion. “The Farhud must be seen as an integral part
of the Holocaust that the Nazi regime brought on our people.” He calls
the Farhud “the Kristallnacht of Iraqi Jewry.”

Historian
Dr. Nissim Kazaz, an expert on Iraqi Jewry whose father was killed in
the riots, claims that the pogrom was “indisputably” the result of
“ongoing anti-Jewish incitement by the emissaries of Nazi Germany and
the Arab leaders who joined with them.” He said, “The participants in
the pogrom were organizations, military people and police officers
steeped in Nazi ideology beside the rioters, whom had been incited by
Nazi Germany’s lackeys in Iraq.” He also believes that the victims of
the Farhud should be regarded as “inseparable from the victims and those
affected by the Holocaust of European Jewry.”

To
understand the Nazis’ influence in Iraq, we must return to 1932, the
year the British mandate ended there. Dr. Fritz Grobba, an Orientalist
and German diplomat stationed in Iraq as Germany’s ambassador,
established the Nazi hold there. Before that, he had served in the
German consulate in Jerusalem and fought on the Palestine front during
World War I. Among other activities, he acquired the newspaper Al-Alam
Al-Arabi, in which he published an Arabic translation of Mein Kampf and
other essays containing anti-Semitic propaganda. He sent Iraqi officers
and intellectuals on trips to Germany as guests of the Nazi party.

He
also gave financial support to nationalist youth groups in Iraq and
provided them with Nazi propaganda materials. A delegation from the
Al-Fatwa nationalist youth movement even visited Germany in May 1938,
attended the Nazi party conference in Nuremberg and returned to Iraq
armed with anti-Jewish messages.

“They
made an effort to emulate and adopt the extremely anti-Semitic slogans
and tendencies of the Hitler Youth,” wrote Professor Michael Eppel,
former head of the Department of Middle Eastern History at the
University of Haifa. This youth movement later participated in the
pogrom, together with other groups. “The influence of Nazi Germany was
the deciding factor in directing anger on the street toward physical
attack, a pogrom against the Jews,” he wrote. “The Iraqi politicians who
encouraged it and handed out weapons to the worked-up crowd were among
Germany’s strongest supporters, and they were very strongly influenced
by the spirit of facscism and Nazism.”

Dr.
Toby disagrees. “Of the many factors that created the hostile
atmosphere toward the Jews inside Iraq, the German one is at the bottom
of the list. It was marginal, perhaps almost negligible, in comparison
with other factors,” he wrote, adding, “The mere existence of propaganda
is not enough... to base a conclusion about a link, expectation or
intent by the Germans to carry out an act against the Jews inside Iraq.”

Another
figure at the center of the claim is the Iraqi prime minister at the
time, Rashid Ali al-Gaylani, who seized power in a coup in 1941 and
established a pro-Nazi government that lasted for two months – the
pogrom took place immediately upon the fall of this government.

Professor
Kerem collected testimonies proving that al-Gaylani’s government had
been funded by the Nazis. In a telegram sent on May 21, 1941 from
Baghdad, Dr. Grobba, Germany’s ambassador in Iraq, writes that he
transferred tens of thousands of gold ingots to al-Gaylani. Alongside
that, he gives an update about al-Gaylani’s request for 80,000 more gold
ingots and mentions the agreement that was about to be signed between
Germany and Iraq, as part of which the Nazis would grant a loan of one
million gold ingots to their allies in Baghdad.

Money
and propaganda were not the only things the Nazis provided to Baghdad.
They also sent weapons to Iraq in an attempt to help the Iraqis fight
against a common enemy — the British. Professor Kerem found evidence of
that in the archives of Germany’s Foreign Ministry and Defense Ministry.
He says that in the minutes of a meeting of the supreme German command
from May 7, 1941, it is written that “Hitler decided to assist Iraq in
every possible way, including sending arms, ammunition, money and
military aid.”

Dr.
Toby interprets this differently. “The Iraqis were courting the Germans
enthusiastically and begging for their political, financial and
military assistance. Throughout most of the period under discussion,
Germany responded with indifference. It was only toward the end that
they agreed to send limited assistance, which contributed nothing to the
administration in Baghdad,” he wrote.

Indeed,
the German attempt to help the Iraqis fight the British failed On May
29, 1941, after the British reached the gates of Baghdad, al-Gaylani
fled from Iraq. The Jews thought that the danger had passed, and on the
morning of the Shavuot festival, June 1, 1941, they emerged wearing
their holiday clothing to welcome the pro-British ruler, who had
returned to Iraq. But Iraqi troops set upon them, and within hours Jews
were being attacked all over the city and in other places as well.

“Farhud,
ya ummat Muhammad!” (Farhud, O nation of Mohammed!) was the cry of the
mob when the signal was given to murder and rob the Jews,” Hela Kargola
later said. “Thousands, regardless of gender, age or status, took part
in the celebration of slaughter and theft.”

Were
the Nazis behind the pogrom, or was it a spontaneous outbreak of
frustrated Iraqis? Researchers differ. In the heat of the dispute, an
embarrassing situation has been created in which the state is being
asked to defend the strongly pro-Nazi Dr. Grobba. In his professional
opinion, Dr. Toby wrote that Grobba “was not of the sort of people who
were sworn Nazis,” but rather “a professional diplomat who evidently
stayed in office when the Nazis came to power, not because of strong
faith in Nazi ideology.”

Dr.
Kazaz, the plaintiffs’ expert, was irritated to read these assertions.
“The truth is that Dr. Grobba was a professional diplomat serving his
country and his homeland. And let us say that he was ‘not of the sort of
people who were sworn Nazis,’ by Dr. Toby’s definition. The question
still remains: what kind of Nazi does Dr. Toby think he was? And even if
we work on the assumption that he was not a sworn Nazi, he still
remains in the category of a Nazi.”

London Times refuses to run Elie Wiesel ad
ed note from Trevor: If one were not awake to the deceptive, always
warlike nature of Judaism, one might assume that someone who is a
professional “holocaust survivor” would want peace, but Elie the Weaze
can be seen relentlessly promoting all the Zionist wars of aggression.
The fact that the London Times has rejected his blatantly pro-genocide
commercial advertisement against the Palestinians signals what is
repeatedly stated at The Ugly Truth, that the usurping Jewish entity is
taking note that people are waking up, it is changing its tune, and it
is opting for a massive PR makeover to remove some of the overtness of
its war against Gentile-dom.

Haves and Have-Nots
(American Free Press) In a recent letter published in The Wall Street Journal,
billionaire capitalist Tom Perkins compared the tensions between the
middle class and the rich in America to Kristallnacht, or “Night of the
Broken Glass,” the night when Nazis rounded up Jews in Germany after the
German ambassador to France was murdered by an assassin linked to
French Jewish groups.
Perkins wrote that he wanted to draw “attention
to the parallels of fascist Nazi Germany to its war on its ‘one
percent,’ namely its Jews, to the progressive war on the American 1%,
namely the ‘rich,’” adding that there could come a time when the poorer
class goes after the plutocracy much like the Nazis did to the Jews.
(AMERICAN FREE PRESS, Feb. 10, 2014, p.2)U.S. billionaire jeered for comparing 1% to Jews in Nazi Germany

Venture capitalist Thomas Perkins pens letter to editor warning of a progressive Kristallnacht, gets called an idiot. A wealthy American venture capitalist has come under fire for comparing
criticism of the "successful one percent" to the plight of Jews in Nazi
Germany.
(...)

"Writing
from the epicenter of progressive thought, San Francisco, I would call
attention to the parallels of fascist Nazi Germany to its war on its
'one percent,' namely its Jews, to the progressive war on the American
one percent, namely the 'rich,'" Perkins wrote.(...)

In
his letter to the editor, Perkins took shots at those who are vilifying
the rich. "From the Occupy movement to the demonization of the rich
embedded in virtually every word of our local newspaper, the San
Francisco Chronicle, I perceive a rising tide of hatred of the
successful one percent," he wrote.

He
went on to describe the "outraged public reaction" to rising real
estate prices and to the Google buses, and also mentioned "libelous and
cruel attacks" in the San Francisco Chronicle against author Danielle
Steel – Perkins' ex-wife.

He
concludes his letter: "This is a very dangerous drift in our American
thinking. Kristallnacht was unthinkable in 1930; is its descendent
'progressive' radicalism unthinkable now?" (..)

Perkins sits on the board of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., which owns the Wall Street Journal.

[NOTE: Steel was born Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel in New York
City, the only child of Norma da Câmara Stone dos Reis and John
Schulein-Steel. Her father was a German Jewish immigrant, a descendant
of owners of Löwenbräu beer. (Wikipedia)]

A
California multimillionaire has attracted ridicule after the Wall
Street Journal published his letter comparing criticism of super-rich
Americans to the Holocaust.

Venture capitalist Thomas Perkins, who
is thought to be worth around $8billion, wrote to the paper from San
Francisco, where a class war is currently brewing over rich tech
employees who are driving up the city's cost of living. (...)

Mr
Perkins describing the hatred attracted by Google workers in San
Francisco and an incident in which his former wife author Danielle
Steele was branded a 'snob' in the San Francisco Chronicle in a row over
the height of her hedge.

One of the biggest themes emerging in the region right now is how
wealthy tech workers are driving up real estate prices in the city,
effectively pricing out the lower and middle classes. Recently, there
have been a handful of instances of tech workers displaying clear
ignorance of the wealth gap in the San Francisco area. For example,
AngelHack CEO Greg Gopman was forced to apologize after calling the city's homeless "trash" in Decemeber.

AIPAC's Peace Problem AIPAC has long avoided taking a clear stand on the substance of an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal. But with John Kerry about to unveil his plan, those days may be coming to an end.Getty ImagesAIPAC has long avoided taking a clear stand on the substance of an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal. But with John Kerry about to unveil his plan, those days may be coming to an endAt AIPAC, Mideast Peace Process Is Way Down the Agenda

Now that Israel's regime is Kahanist the end draws near
The fate of the country lies in the hands of two people: Yair Lapid and Tzipi Livni. If they fail, it's the end of days.
By Sefi Rachlevsky | Feb. 11, 2014 | 6:06 AMPoster honoring Rabbi Meir Kahane. Photo by David Sheen
This is how the end looks. The Israeli regime has become Kahanist. The culture minister praises Sapir Sabah with a big “like.”
Sabah, the high school student who decided that her teacher, Adam Verete, is a traitor, and that traitors deserve a death sentence. Sabah, who is an open Kahanist, who celebrates with the most extreme Kahanists from the height of physical belligerence, of the kind that led to the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995.
This after the leading members of the regime, like Ministers Avigdor Lieberman, Naftali Bennett and Limor Livnat, stood enthusiastically behind a Kahanist singer who sang a song of praise to God for the death sentence thanks to which Rabin was assassinated and the late Prime Minister Ariel Sharon collapsed.
And so, shamelessly, a revolution was carried out. They praise a singer who praised Rabin’s death sentence, and praise the enthusiastic disciple of Kahanist Michael Ben Ari. Meanwhile, not only is the municipal rabbi who forbade selling and renting apartments to Arabs not dismissed, but he is about to be promoted to rabbi of the capital city.
In her eulogy to entertainer Sefi Rivlin, Sports and Culture Minister Limor Livnat said, “For anyone who loves the country, it’s not easy to be in the artists guild.” The culture minister. According to her, most artists hate the country. Most artists are “traitors.”
When the government lights the fire of incitement, it spreads rapidly among the public. That’s why this week the spark of hatred for the left reached its highest point since Rabin’s assassination.
Political leaders’ enthusiastic embrace of Kahanism has a tremendous influence. It’s similar to the influence of the legitimization for violence that was granted by Benjamin Netanyahu when he orchestrated the demonstrations against Rabin that led up to the assassination ("In blood and fire we will expel Rabin").
Those who paid attention this week, whether on the Internet or in real life, could have seen what many are suppressing: the results of the incitement against “the Arabs,” and, even more so, against “the traitorous left.” A video on the popular news and entertainment website Walla showing settlers with cudgels beating a pro-human rights Israeli led to hundreds of immediate responses by real people, who were angry that it was only a beating. Leftists should be killed, not just beaten, these commenters insisted. And they should be dealt with before even the Arabs.
Finance Minister Yair Lapid and Justice Minister Tzipi Livni — who are holding the Kahanist regime in their hands, given that without their parties the governing coalition would not have a majority — refuse to understand that the spirit of the country is the main thing.
While Lapid’s Yesh Atid and Livni’s Hatnuah parties are in cahoots with a peace process that won’t actually be implemented, with a prime minister who makes incessant declarations, the spirit of the country is being poisoned every day here. Israel is changing overnight.
There’s a reason that Israel has been overcome with a craze for Spanish passports over the past two days: Citizens want to flee from fascist regimes. Incitement can create hatred of the other and fan murderous intentions toward so-called traitors, but it cannot generate love. Not love for a place, for its people, for its culture or for its trampled language.
This is a serious and immediate warning. The fire of racism is changing Israel forever. After the betrayal of the citizens’ outcry against a cannibalistic and ideological governmental capitalism that doesn’t enable people to live, public frustration is being diverted to two places, as happened in Europe during the rise of fascism: dreams of escape, and hatred of others and of “traitors.”
Israel’s fate is in the hands of two people: Lapid and Livni. As of now, they have the power to join Labor Party leader Isaac Herzog and cause the downfall of the Kahane regime. If the two continue to close their eyes and cooperate with Kahanism, everything will be consumed by the fire.
Eighty years ago, the six seals of the racist apocalypse were opened, and the resulting enmity was poured over the heads of millions. Now the seventh seal has been opened. The one on the inside. These are the last moments in which the process can be brought to a halt. The last moments for realizing that preventing a Kahanist state is the only mission. Everything is secondary to it. Every second in which the public is poisoned by the regime is changing our lives forever.

French vigilance on anti-Israel speech provoking backlash
A
2003 law has made it possible to prosecute anti-Israel activists for
hate speech, but some say the measure is too restrictive of political
expression.
"Backlash", c'est le mot clé de toute l'histoire juive! Ils appellent ça : "pogrom", "holocauste

BDS AND THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMUNITY
The use of name-calling like “anti-Semites” and “delegtimizers” is
problematic for a number of reasons, not only because its claims are
untrue, but also because it takes the focus off the real issue at hand –
whether and how Israel is, in fact, violating international law and
basic human rights principles – and, instead, recklessly impugns the
characters of those advocating for Israel to be held accountable.

Why I 'Single Out' Israel
Pro-Israel activists complain that Israel is unfairly ‘singled out’ for
criticism. But Jay Michaelson writes there is every reason to hold the
Jewish State to a different standard.

(...)Today’s college students were born into a world with a nuclear
Israel, bankrolled by America, with military might that can crush its
enemies. It is absurd to look at images of Palestinian homes being
ransacked by Israeli soldiers and then be told that Israel is the victim
of a “different standard.” Name another beneficiary of American foreign
aid that behaves this way.
The boycotters may be wrong, but they’re not singling
out Israel irrationally. On the contrary, Israel’s defenders are the
ones being irrational.

Israel's anti-Semitism Op-ed: There are more hate incidents against Arabs in Israel than against Jews in France.

Teaching Kids To Hate
When photos of weapon-wielding kids flooded out of the West Bank, most
Jewish media outlets ignored them for one reason: they showed Israeli,
not Palestinian, glorification of violence. Getty Images When photos
of weapon-wielding kids flooded out of the West Bank, most Jewish media
outlets ignored them for one reason: they showed Israeli, not
Palestinian, glorification of violence.